Chip Salzenberg

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Shirley, you can't be serious. Current JVMs have fixed heap sizes and, if you're using a decent-sized heap, GC pauses of over a minute. ONE MINUTE OF DOING NOTHING. And no I'm not kidding. It's called a "Juliet Pause". Nodes...

Reini: "When you can keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs, you obviously do not understand the situation." But: This also applies in the inverse. Your "security problem" is as real as Russell's tea set orbiting...

Thank you for these tests! As it happens I've gotten used to the Moose meta object stuff. Perhaps I'll wean myself of it to gain the Mouse speed, someday. What demerphq said - Class::XSAccessor deserves inclusion. I would like a...

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Reini: have you gotten perlbrew to work on cygwin? With the latest install of cygwin (with perl5.14.2), trying to install perl-5.14.2 with the latest perlbrew, I get a hang after ../dist/threads-shared/t/shared_attr.t. This is on WinXP Pro 2002 SP3. BTW, thanks for your work on perl in cygwin -- I use it constantly.

The JVM has been designed with statically typed languages in mind,the same goes for the CLR and that is why the DLR (build on top of CLR) came into existence;to cater for dynamic languages, as well as interoperate with the static ones on the same platform.

Of course dynamic languages could use the CLR, like the first version of IronPython was,but required more effort by the designer because of CLR's design and orientation. As a matter of fact Jim Hugunin creator of IronPython initially started his research on the JVM where he had made Jython
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Hi, Randal. I just discovered this post, thinking about the same sort of problem, a next-generation web framework, and thinking that Perl 6 might be the right platform on which to build it. I don't see any other posts on the topic, however, since this one. Have you brainstormed any further?

Hi. I don't understand the subject of this post very well. That being said, I don't see mention of recent work being done on the JVM that I believe is relevant to this discussion. So, without further ado: http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=292 Please note that this has been implemented in Java 8, and beta builds are now available. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/

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